Trump's mind-boggling legitimacy woes.

[Jacob Boehme]

Source: The Daily Beast: Trump Could Address These Legitimacy Questions—But He Won’t
Polls show Americans already disapprove of the job Trump is doing—the one he hasn’t even started yet. He could take steps here, but of course he won’t.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/14/trump-could-address-these-legitimacy-questions-but-he-won-t.html

Excerpts: The shadow of illegitimacy stalks President-elect Donald Trump. Those are not words to be written lightly. But they are becoming harder to avoid as Trump’s presidency-in-waiting becomes increasingly mired in scandal before it’s even begun.

It’s not that Americans, including Lewis, are refusing to accept that Donald Trump will be the president once he’s sworn in, the way birthers, including Donald Trump, did to Barack Obama. But birthers were a tiny fraction of the public, and their insane theory of Obama’s secret Kenyan birth remained confined inside the Republican Party base. Obama entered office with approval ratings approaching 70 percent...

Trump, on the other hand, is now officially the most unpopular President-elect in modern American history. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, fewer than four in 10 Americans approve of the President-elect. Trump is upside down in terms of public confidence in nearly every measure, from his honesty, to his leadership skills, to whether he is level-headed, and even whether he will help improve people’s personal finances, which was his strongest suit going into the election. Just four in 10 believe he can unite the country.

[malaise]

2. My grandma loved to use the phrase when you point one finger at someone else

three fingers are pointing at you.
He spent years trying to undermine Obama's Presidency - now there are real questions about his legitimacy - life is sweet sometimes.
He's already paying and inauguration is days away.

[Girard442]

3. GWB was a POTUS of shaky legitimacy -- until 9/11.

The road map is there. Trump can just follow it.